A bean-to-bar chocolate maker and dessert shop at 136 Ponsonby Road, Ponsonby, where the chocolate is made from raw cacao beans, roasted and stone ground in small batches. The chocolate factory moved to Ponsonby Central, and the bars are wrapped by hand. The cacao comes from smallholder farmers in the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea and Peru. The shop serves craft hot chocolates made from its own chocolate, single origin hot chocolate, craft ice cream, petit gâteaux made fresh daily, macarons, celebration cakes built to order and a plated dessert menu.
The business is a founding member of A Bar Apart, a New Zealand certification for bean-to-bar makers. Two shops remain, in Britomart and Ponsonby. Open Locally lists two other dessert shops within a kilometre. The Treatory is 0.5 km away and rated 4.8 from 178 reviews, and T_art Patisserie is 1.0 km away and rated 5.0 from 133 reviews. Our pick in Ponsonby for a hot chocolate made from bean to bar.